Spero Family Services
Mount Vernon, IL
Sep 11, 2026
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Are you ready to make a meaningful impact by shaping clinical practice and developing the people who deliver it? Join an established, reputable, and motivated Residential Treatment team where you’ll provide strategic clinical leadership, help therapists strengthen their skills, and build a collaborative, trauma-informed Treatment Team. You’ll have the opportunity to deepen staff understanding of mental health and trauma-informed care while strengthening the quality and sustainability of services for the youth we serve. If you’re passionate about developing clinicians, building strong teams, and making a lasting difference, we want to hear from you.
Job Purpose: Provide clinical oversight and guidance to the Residential Treatment programs and provide direct supervision to staff as assigned. Coordinate the delivery of treatment by Residential team to clients. Ensure compliance with licensing, accreditation, contract requirements and Medicaid standards for program(s) as assigned.
Key Responsibilities:
- Clinical Direction: Work cooperatively with others on team to ensure understanding of the program treatment model and adherence to ethical and best practice standards in the delivery of clinical services by:
- Overseeing the assessment, treatment planning, and treatment stages for youth in the program(s) as assigned.
- Providing clinical leadership and oversight for all aspects of therapeutic treatment within assigned program(s), ensuring that treatment planning is understood, integrated, and consistently implemented across the therapeutic milieu and all program services and activities, in collaboration with the Program Leadership.
- Being involved with evaluating referrals, maintaining current information regarding therapeutic interventions relevant to the populations served, ensuring model implementation, and arranging internal case reviews to provide direct consultations on individual client cases.
- Clinical Training: Provide education and training to entire Residential team, including milieu staff, case managers, etc. in order to enhance skills related to therapeutic work.
- Clinical Team: Direct supervision of Residential Therapists/Counselors. Ensure high quality treatment delivery and achievement of Medicaid billing targets and client outcomes. Duties may include overseeing the recruitment and retention of clinical staff, interviewing and hiring, providing oversight and support, and providing appropriate corrective action plans for staff when necessary.
- Therapeutic Activities Team: Direct supervision of the Therapeutic Activities Coordinator and provides team guidance to ensure effective therapeutic programming, client outcomes, and Medicaid billing/goals. Oversees staff recruitment, performance, and corrective action as needed.
- Other: Be available for after-hours clinical consultation as needed. Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications: Master’s Degree in a Human Services field, LCSW or LCPC, 2 years previous experience in clinical treatment of children and adolescents, sound knowledge of trauma informed practices, and previous supervisory experience. Previous experience in 24/7 care preferred.
Skills: Must be organized, able to multi-task, have excellent written and verbal communication skills, basic computer skills, and detail oriented. Must be able to interact with, and relate to, diverse groups of people. Must be able to demonstrate leadership skills and have the ability to recognize and report issues or concerns pertaining to program operations. Must be able to work collaboratively with program managers/clinicians to ensure clinical treatment is consistent in day-to-day programming and activities as well as therapy setting.
Miscellaneous: Must pass all pre-employment drug screens and background clearances. Must be willing to travel and work flexible hours to meet the needs of the program.
*Exact pay commensurate with education and experience
About Spero Family Services
Spero Family Services offers hope, help, and healing by providing Christ-centered human services to meet the ever-changing needs of individuals, families, and communities.
Our main campus is located in Mt. Vernon, IL and we operate several programs/offices there. However, we also have locations in Olney, Springfield, and West Frankfort. Spero Family Services provides more than 10 social service programs aimed to support some of the most vulnerable children and families in our region. These include residential and group home services, counseling, foster care, child and family services, and many others.